skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trump was the first President in US history to openly support Gay marriage before his election, it couldn't even be said about Obama, and I don't think it's even possible to measure any amount of good will that got him or Republicans from the left or center. There are other things at work here than just the usual -isms -ias.
> a niche documentary

niche like Russian doping?

From the article:

> The documentary about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi... was one of the hottest films at last year’s Sundance. It had glowing reviews, a ripped from the headlines subject, and a big-name director in Fogel, fresh off the Oscar-winning “Icarus,” a penetrating look at Russian doping that got the country banned from the Olympics.

> And yet, Netflix, which had previously released “Icarus,” and other streaming services such as Apple and Amazon steered clear of “The Dissident.”

Wikipedia has a separate article for reactions to Jamal Kashoggi's killing from around the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Jamal_Khashog...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactions_to_the_assassination...

Not sure you could call this a niche topic. Heck we're talking about it on HN.
Well, shouldn’t the user decide what is legitimate to take out of its behavior?

It might be done without bad intentions, but do Mozilla ask consent before asking their users data about when they are using Firefox, and so that they are (possibly) in front of their screen.
Instead of stopping to consider why a decorated Navy SEAL, a professional who didn't break the law and was participating in a protest, had beliefs that the election was rigged, the article tries to paint the man as a weak minded buffoon, buying into paranoia.
The article acknowledges "It is surprising because Mr. Newbold’s background would seem to armor him better than most against the lure of baseless conspiracy theories."
Yet instead of investing how someone who has training for this kind of thing could be convinced of it, they just try to group him with a supposed mob, and Alex Jones.
While anyone can fall for paranoia, when someone such as Senior Chief Newbold, appears to have fallen for it, whether it is paranoia or not needs to be investigated. It appears they interviewed him, but they didn't cover any reasoning or logic, or explanation for his beliefs.
This isn't how I was taught to write an investigative piece in college.
I would genuinely like to know what convinced this ex-SEAL of his beliefs. Now, the world my never know, and just group him with a mob.
Nice work!

This reminded me to a series of posts by Figma in which they described how their JS plugin system works [1].

I remember there were plenty of security reasons why eval was not the best way to go. I wonder if you guys took this into account?

[1] https://www.figma.com/blog/how-we-built-the-figma-plugin-sys...
> The goal of those rules is to stop people importing meat and selling it, not workers eating their lunch.

How did Covid start and spread? Through movement of infected meat and people. I also think you really don't understand the job of a border controller.
If it was a comment on HN, it’d be downvoted to hell. Instead it’s written as an article and soared to the front page. Maybe I should write my comments as blogs instead, since I have a large amount of downvotes.
Thank you, I wonder why it only got 2 paragraphs.
Good example.

'The system' and 'Wall St' don't just play the surface game here. Cool, nice, you short squeezed a hedge fund. It's awesome but ... you bet WSBers still involuntarily shoveled money to Wall St one way or another because every single step of the game is rigged asswards and back.
In the UK we only just survived the WW2 blockade, with a highly centrally planned push to expand local agriculture to cover missing imports. Loss of imports forever will kill over 50% of the population, slowly.

The problem with transitioning to draft animals is preventing them getting eaten in the collapse. We'd probably also run out of trees in a few years.

(Collapsists should make more study of WW2, such as Beevor's magnificent, horrifying Stalingrad. Or the siege of Leningrad. Surrounded Soviet civilians died by the millions. And that wasn't a collapse in the collapsist sense, the social, legal and technological order remained somewhat intact)
It's a little concerning that corporations basically donate to whoever is in power, presumably for favorable treatment. It's like a big thumb on the scale for incumbents.
Here's a good example, but from America. I find it especially abhorrent when an American President orders the killing of American citizens (at least 1 directly ordered with several other "unintended" murders) on foreign soil without their guaranteed 5th Amendment trial, which states, in part, "that no one shall be "deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law."

> Since 2009, the United States, in the conduct of U.S. counterterrorism operations against al-Qa’ida and its associated forces outside of areas of active hostilities, has specifically targeted and killed one U.S. citizen, Anwar al-Aulaqi. The United States is further aware of three other U.S. citizens who have been killed in such U.S. counterterrorism operations over that same time period: Samir Khan, ‘Abd al-Rahman Anwar al-Aulaqi, and Jude Kenan Mohammed. These individuals were not specifically targeted by the United States. -Attorney General Eric Holder, May 22, 2013

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2014/mar/19/kesha-roge...
Sorry do you want to remove the top tab bar because you use TST? I haven't had a tab bar for ever. I think it might need an edit in user.chrome but is very straight forward.
Are you on a Linux distro? The reason that this happens is because Firefox in Linux uses many internal libraries, some that are incompatible from one (even minor) version to the next due to the tight coupling of some of the libraries. Combine that with distro-managed updates, and the result is the restart dialog. Updates on Windows and macOS are different though, they are controlled by Firefox and you can delay updates even when the update is downloaded (Windows users might even see the loading bar associated with the update).
So we agree that the online presentation is not good - I have no issue with email particularly, i have a problem with the email archives.

More specifically, the fact that no one cares about the usability of the archive or online presentation is proof that they don't care about the impression they make external people. They can hardly complain about the lack of new contributors if they make no effort to be accessible to them.
The way CO2 is working make that its GH effect grow with altitude. And while C02 is heavier than O2 and N2, convection and probably other boring effects (i failed my thermodynamic classes, and it was 10 years ago, sorry) makes that the Co2 surplus emitted at sea level will find itself in high troposphere in 20 to 30 years.

So the effect we have right a this moment is mostly caused by the carbon we emitted in early 2000's and before.
What do you mean "without tabs"?
"I will invade your privacy for the legitimate interest of my AdTech network."

A few more GDPR fines and that hole will also be plugged. :)
That's like saying a personal baggie of cocaine is for lunch therefore you should not confiscate it. If it's on the list of no-entry then it's on there for a reason.
It triggers all the people who think it’s censorship to state what objective reality is and contradict opinions stated as fact. Labeling is viewed as bias, whereas correction after the fact is viewed as review.
Firefox lets you manually opt-in into their analytics, yes.
Fast raises $102M as the online checkout wars continue
If Redhat had announce that CentOS would no longer receive funding, but that the community would be free to take over the project, CentOS would be even more dead.

I’m sorry for the CentOS users, but I think the reality is that it’s not a project that many want to work on. It seems to require a lot of resource and it’s an operating used by people who specifically don’t want to pay.
I agree you should want the election contested legally.

Trump and his attorneys falsely asserting widespread election fraud in public statements you should not want.
I feel like type checking for Python is a plot by engineers bored by a language that is too pragmatic and efficient for their taste.
But the story is titled “ Google won't donate to members of Congress who voted against election results” and the comment, assuming it was made in good faith and wasn’t just there to troll, implied equivalence between the two topics.
The Coding Bootcamp Trap
People who use dynamically-typed languages are finally realizing that having to simulate a type-checker mentally is a bad idea.

Also, many statically-typed languages do not take advantage of the flexibility a good type-system can provide. For example, C, C++, Java.
Here is the description how to do it:
https://medium.com/@Aenon/firefox-hide-native-tabs-and-title...
Fairly certain you don't want to be throwing `eval` in your code.

I'm also building a workflow engine on the side, but don't want to see you run into security issues :)

Look into the realms TC39 proposal, the SES TC39 proposal, or running (no joke) a lightweight ES6 environment in webassembly to eval your code.

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-realms/#ecmascript-spec-pro...

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-ses

https://github.com/justjake/quickjs-emscripten
It was also sacked in 1204, which what the site refers to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Constantinople
We've automated our moderation errors so we can make them faster and more reliably!
Yea it's from past data. I also think it's a strech calling it AI but everyone else does so I just go with it and the fact it's a buzzword.
There was one famous study that discovered wearing weaker glasses made myopia worse, and then everyone was too afraid to make further studies
I think you are being downvoted in part because your comment is not 100% factual and because it triggers offense by some.

But as a centrist, I want to be one to affirm that your statement has been demonstrably true in many (but not all) instances over the last many months and years. (And as a general trend throughout history.)

Those who have power in a given domain tend to—at least eventually—wield their power in an unbalanced way. This criticism does not legitimize actual fake news, but does acknowledge that such tools to limit fake news can—and often are—used to also limit undesirable opposition speech.

Case in point: Facebook, which tends to favor right-leaning speech, recently banned (and then revoked said ban) of several socialist groups on their platform. While they cite technical reasons, it is feasible that it was a human decision among those in power who wished to limit "opposition" speech. Of course, it could have legitimately been a bug, but it's certainly not believed so by those affected.
It is annoying to see the cheapening of the word "censorship" recently. It isn't censorship when a private company makes internal decisions about the content it wants to produce. It certainly isn't censorship when a company will share content on its platform but refuses to buy exclusive rights to the project. Apple and Amazon are facilitating people watching this movie. If MBS was going to retaliate for it, I don't think "it is only up for rental" is going to be a convincing excuse.

Also since you bring up the extra fee that this costs, I want to highlight the price. The distributors set the price at $20 for a rental. That is their decision not Apple's or Amazons. If they wanted this movie to seen by as many people as possible, lowering that price is going to do a lot more good than complaining to Variety. That $20 price makes me think the reason this is for rent on Amazon and not free with Prime is because the price tag would have been too high to justify purchasing exclusivity.
It's pretty stupid to call it a loophole at all. It's like calling the Xbox Series S a next-gen gaming loophole.
What is this.

I would of been down to order something like a mug to help out , but I can't find anything to buy.
I understand that the person paying probably needs an account somewhere, so that payments can be batched together to reduce transaction fees.

However, there's no reason for me to have an account anywhere in order to receive bitcoin. All I need is a bitcoin address.

I don't want to sign up with Coil, Interledger, Uphold, Gatehub, or any other random third party, in order to receive bitcoin. And there is zero reason why I would have to.
Epidemic Modeling – Competing Covid-19 Strains
Yet another floating-point tutorial
If you have a plumber fix your toilet, and multiple years later it breaks, and you go to them expecting their insurance to pay out for a replacement, how do you think that conversation will go?

If you hire an engineer to build you a bridge, and years later you are jealous that every other city has two-level bridges, do you imagine they will rebuild it for you for free?

I don't understand how software is any different.
The Teeniest Tiniest Laptop in the West
Found the Venetian shill.

#remember 4th Crusade
No, you didn't understand correctly. The feature that isn't supported is row level replication zones. Replication zones allows to define the location of replicas.
The 1204 "Sack of Constantinople" by Western crusaders can be seen as the "fall before the Fall" though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack_of_Constantinople#Afterma...
Looks like a clean and sensible design. Reminiscent of classic desktop map programs.
Self replying because this seems to have tickled a few people the wrong way: I'm specifically complaining about the online presentation of the mail/archive (or lack thereof), not the use of mail per-se.

Simply, you can't complain about the lack of new contributors if you make no effort towards appeal and usability.
Its the result of a large part of the population being -defacto- disconnected from any economic activity. Yes they receive unemployment benefits /social welfare. Often for generations - but this just is not enough.
The mind knows you do not contribute to your community, even though your pot is full of food. Autarky rebellions like brexxit address this dependence on society needing a member.
I find this psychological need not really catered for in UBI concepts.
I tweeted this as well, but why is this a bad thing if it builds your audience and enables you to convert that audience into future customers? It seems just because someone doesn't like such content doesn't mean it's not useful for others, otherwise they wouldn't follow you and like/retweet your "obvious" advice.
The difference is that it never stopped, confirmed the first results, and had no credible evidence suggesting problems. There was nothing like the hanging chads, and certainly not on the scale needed to flip the results.
Aggregated mobile data used to monitor Covid-19 travel restriction compliance
http://archive.is/VSZdB
Philip Morris Faces Risk of U.S. Cigarette Alternative Block
> was there any attempt to add typing in older versions of python that were dropped ?

Not that I know of. I used "renaissance" to connote an increased positive focus, invigoration, and activity.
I think the idea of a common shaft, only provided by electricity, is a good approximation.

But the shaft of such length is not very "rigid", and the task is to keep it from wringing and breaking by keeping all parts of it rotating at the same speed.

(As a side note: have you heard of selsyns?)
Your position is essentially that the price-finding function of stock markets is not necessary, in which case I wonder why we have the stock market at all.
It makes sense if see it as Renaissance for Python, driven by type checking. Or at least the most sense I can find.

For me this is true, I've come back to Python because of it for personal projects.

I'm still trying to cargo cult myself into thinking that Python async makes any sense however. Why not just go with a genserver abstraction and expose the primitives over this mess we have?
> If you are a new player, the most challenging part is escaping spawn (the area where new players start from, which is also the only crowded area in the game). This is pretty hard because spawn is a wasteland with no natural resources left (in Minecraft you have a hunger meter so if you can't find food you will eventually die), and in addition spawn is populated by armed players who kill new players as a pastime.

Hmm. Is cannibalism an option?
Benchmarking signal acquisition on the RPi – Atman IoT
That operation is referred to as crossdocking in the industry. Pretty silly that people would downvote you for that though.
Ask HN: What technology made your jaw drop the first time you used it?
For me it would be VR. I put on a VR headset (I think the rift S), and the accuracy of the tracking and the 3D effect had me stunned. Later I bought a Valve Index and every new experience or interaction blows me away.
Cool, this is a Dutch company right? Congrats!
Centos was my first touch with Linux in virtual machine in vagrant. It was kind of standart to use centos.
Rapid Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Development with ObservableHQ
A word of caution. A lot of college classes start deceptively easy, e.g. "one hour on what a function is" but ramp up quickly to where success on week four's quiz is truly a matter of having done the homework and devoting time to study.

It's better to assume you don't know much about the subject from day one. If the first week studying only takes a half hour, spend the other five and half hours getting ahead on future weeks.

Good luck.
Good observation. Thanks for the feedback!
If what you say is true, then didn't Trump appointed judges and Republican judges not evaluate the evidence and sworn affidavits? Why didn't Barr, a heavily partisan and biased Trump sycophant who meddled with prior investigations, not investigate all that being the head of the DoJ? If he somehow turned rogue, why didn't Trump fire him and replace him with someone who would investigate?

Do you have any reasonable explanation for the above? Mine is that all the evidence was hearsay and even Trump and Republicans knew it wasn't credible, he just did that to get this campaign to make even more money by fooling people, and for political gain.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-fundra...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-11/trump-rea...
What’s the big deal about type checking?

I haven’t worked on large code bases, only run small ML analyses on tabular data. Can someone be concrete with the advantages and use cases?
Thanks for the input on the headline. Will adjust going forward.

49 per month

Can you expound on the "too much". Does this mean it can be taken advantage of and be costly to the company?

Should there be a cap on messaging?
> Well, now you know why it will fail ;)

I'm preparing my CV already, got to think of the best sounding job title to impress for my next gig. :)
It wasn't politically correct to vote Brexit, so nobody mentioned it and just voted.

I couldn't vote as a European in UK but I would have voted Leave.

I'd take a business / economic hit over having a political end economic entity rule my country, especially one which contains countries that are ticking bombs with no hope to recover.

No amount of austerity will fix Greece's and Italy's economies and there are no plans of reducing their gigantic governments.

Varoufakis has been speaking for ages and nobody is listening.
I love Webflow and have used it >20 hours per week since 2014. It's been a game-changer to let me quickly and visually work out ideas, and has allowed us to iterate more quickly than having to mess around with css and Bootstrap templates (2014...).

That said, I sorely miss proper i18n support.

Currently, we use Transifex to i18n our marketing website, but this means that our SEO is hurt, as Google does not index strings in JS.

Vlad, if you're reading this, please have a look here for a feature suggestion:
https://wishlist.webflow.com/ideas/WEBFLOW-I-2218
Microsoft wants to keep their corporate stink off of those brands as to not taint their market dominance and continued growth. It appears to be working.

They're slowly working other, less-Microsoft-branded proprietary stuff into them, like Azure and VSCode.

GitHub and NPM however remain without even a mention of their ownership and decisionmaking entity.

Some of the marketing for these things they've even taken to posting on unaffiliated domains, like we saw on HN yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25903358

They're trying really hard to not remind people that the same people who put ads in your start menu also own and control your favorite free code host, too.

Call it Microsoft GitHub whenever you can.
Formlabs Launches Fuse 1
Constantinople was successfully besieged by the fourth crusade in 1204, and the subsequent sacking of the city did apparently result in the destruction of the library. Looking at the Wikipedia page for the library it looks like the phrase was directly copied from there. I guess the problem is Constantinople has fallen many times, but only Fallen once.
Ideal Days vs. Story Points: Which Is Better and Why?
Pending approval and banned have wildly different connotations and I honestly can't assume such a substitution was done in good faith. It's like saying an engaged couple is divorced because they're not currently married.
It's optional. How about if you are better without it, outperform by yourself and show us the way?
Twitter permanently suspends My Pillow CEO
There were no votes in 2000 and 2016. The only certification vote taken before 2020 was in 2004, since both a house member and a senator needs to object for a vote to be taken at all.
I think the left column is the "legitimate interest" version of the cookie type, and the right column the "consent" version (whatever that means). So you can enable and disable either independently, but the former is enabled by default.
I'd like to see anomaly detection as a standard part of (image) classification libraries, as it's incredibly useful to know if a given image is "too far" outside of your trained dataset to be accurately classified.
And any elected politicians or major thought leaders in 2016 who told those voters the election was stolen or fed their paranoia about the candidate's lies should absolutely have been censured in exactly this way. There really weren't any. And that's why this is important. Our leaders need to behave like grownups.
Since we're doing scenarios, what do we do when a hypothetical COVID-21 comes along which is 20x deadlier and kills uniformly across age ranges? Do we simply ignore it because we're tired of stay-at-home and we all gotta live our (now potentially shorter) lives?
Everyone knows github. Adding microsoft to the name doesnt get more sign ups. Npm doesnt even get sign ups this way. I have no idea what Revue is. Adding Twitter to the name gives it instant credibility.
And Mercator is the well-known cartography guy. Love the wordplay.
They don't need to ask anyone for permission - it is their own servers they are pushing bits on. Entitlement in an emotional sense isn't entitlement in a legal sense. Even if the board decided "We want to make it more pleasant by booting every radical under pretexts." would not be a conspiracy and would even be an acceptable risk to take as a business strategy.
Depending on where your friend's location and economic position, it sounds like his concerns could be overblown with respect to doom and certain death.

Global warming will be a major economic problem and hit developing economies particularly hard, but not an existential threat for humanity. Ecological devastation will be widespread but not unprecedented on geologic timescales. Agricultural disruption will be a problem but has clear mitigations.